It is a wild story.

That the body has been stolen may be true enough.

Such things occur; though he was a bold man who laid hands upon the body of a person of such importance.

But that she lives--Gesu! that is an old wife's tale.

I had, myself, the word of the Lord Filippo's physician that she was dead." "Nevertheless, this old wife's tale, as you dub it, is one of which I have had confirmation.